Cops Seek Teens Who Allegedly Set Fire To 13

(CBS) A 13 year old high school student suffered first degree burns after two teens poured gasoline on him and set him on fire as he was walking home from school.

CBS affiliate KCTV reports the teenager was rushed to Children's Mercy Hospital after the flames ignited. Police say his hair and face were burned.

ABC affiliate KMBC reports that Melissa Coon said her son turned from the school's stadium onto Quincy Avenue and noticed two teenagers following him. She said the teens followed her son home and attacked him nike air max online outside his front door.

"They rushed him on the porch as he tried to get the door open," she said. "(One of them) poured nike air max women the gasoline, then flicked the Bic, and said, 'This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy.'"

The second teen then used a air max australia lighter to ignite the gasoline, which "produced a large fireball burning the face and hair" of the victim, according to a Kansas City Police Department report.

"You could smell the burned skin," said Coon. "You could smell the burned hair. It was just horrible." Her son lost some of his eyelashes, eyebrows, and some of the hair around his face was singed. Coon said she knows her son is lucky but also can't believe someone would do that to her child.

The teen's father, 36, said he wants to prosecute the suspects. The boy is white, and the two suspects are black. Police are investigating whether this was a hate crime.

Police are asking for the public's help in locating the two suspects who are described as being around 16 years old. One was wearing a blue beanie, blue jacket and blue green Nike Air Jordans with 23 written on the shoes. The second suspect was wearing a black hoodie and black sunglasses with silver on the side.

Converse parent Nike admits abuse of workers in Indonesia

SUKABUMI, Indonesia Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. Nike, the brand's owner, admits that such abuse has occurred among the contractors that make its hip high tops but says there was little it could do to stop it.

Dozens of workers interviewed by The Associated Press and a document released by Nike show that the footwear and athletic apparel giant has far to go to meet the standards it set for itself a decade ago to end its reliance on sweatshop labor.

That does not appear to explain abuses that workers allege at the Pou Chen Group factory in Sukabumi, about 60 miles from Jakarta it didn't start making Converse products until four years after Nike bought Converse. One worker there said she was kicked by a supervisor last year after making a mistake while cutting rubber for soles.

"We're powerless," said the woman, who like several others interviewed spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals. "Our only choice is to stay and suffer, or speak out and be fired."

The 10,000 mostly female workers at the Taiwanese operated Pou Chen plant make around 50 cents an hour. That's enough, for food and bunkhouse type lodging, but little else. Some workers interviewed by the AP in March and April described being hit or scratched in the arm one man until he bled. Others said they were fired after filing complaints.

"They throw shoes and other things at us" said a 23 year old woman in the embroidery division. "They growl and slap us when they get angry.

"It's part of our daily bread."

Mira Agustina, 30, said she was fired in 2009 for taking sick leave, even though she produced a doctor's note.

"It was a horrible job," she said. "Our bosses pointed their feet at us, calling us names like air jordan 9 retro dog, pig or monkey." nike free australia All are major insults to Muslims. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation.

At the PT Amara Footwear factory located just outside Jakarta, where another Taiwanese contractor makes Converse shoes, a supervisor ordered six female workers to stand in the blazing sun after they failed to meet their target of completing 60 dozen pairs of shoes on time.

"They were crying and allowed to continue their job only after two hours under the sun," said Ujang Suhendi, 47, a worker at a warehouse in the factory. The women's supervisor received a warning letter for the May incident after complaints from unionized workers.

The company's own inquiries also found workers at the two factories were subjected to "serious and egregious" physical and verbal abuse, including the punishment of forcing workers to stand in the sun, said Hannah Jones, a Nike executive who oversees the company's efforts to improve working conditions.

Nike, which came under heavy criticism a decade ago for its use of foreign sweatshops and child labor, has taken steps since then to improve conditions at its 1,000 overseas factories. But the progress it has made at factories producing gear with its premier "swoosh" logo is not fully reflected in those making Converse products.

An internal report Nike released to the AP after it inquired about the abuse show that nearly two thirds of 168 factories making Converse products worldwide fail to meet Nike's own standards for contract manufacturers.

Nike blames problems on pre existing licenses to produce Converse goods that it says prevent air max australia the parent company from inspecting factories or introducing its own code of conduct. But some corporate experts question whether the company is doing all it can.

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Kobe Bryant's new signature shoe is a dramatic departure from his previous efforts with Nike, opting to go for a high cut model after years of being at the forefront of the low cut basketball shoe movement. The key technology found in the Kobe 9 Elite is Flyknit as it makes its debut on a basketball court. Flywire nike air max online and Lunarlon have been used in previous Kobe shoes before and also comes air jordan 9 retro with a carbon fiber heel counter.

While the "Masterpiece" is technically the official debut of the Nike Kobe 9 Elite, two special edition colorways launched previously in limited quantities and in only a few select locations.

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